Many years ago when I first started researching things and looking to primary source materials I was amazed to find just how little time had passed since we humans actualy lived in a world that was as a whole almost utterly subjective.

The appeal to genuine objectivity: something I had hitherto taken for granted throughout my life was, as I discovered, a modern hard won and very recent development.

What I find disturbing about the recent present: as Diesen outlines in the European political sphere above and other popular notions such as " Hate crime" and "Gender" etc underline, is that we appear to be going into reverse gear: returning to a world where "feelings" are more important than evidence and where a subjective "opinion" by the " right" person or people is granted more weight than an objective analysis.
- In short, it does not appear to matter whether something is true any more: as long as it reflects the views that the powerful or the " in-group" wish you to hold, then it is "true enough".

This reversal can only be happening because the actual factual truth of what is taking or has taken place is inconvenient to our masters, who, as the quote attributed to Karl Rove illuminates now decide on such things themselves:

"The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."


Thus several hundred years of hard won gains in striving towards objective understanding go down the tubes because, well, hubris, feelings, wishful thinking.

-It's not just the proverbial ostrich burying its head in the sand but popping it up behind itself to kiss it's own arse goodbye.